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Founded: 13th centuryCategory: Religious sites in France
Historical period: Late Capetians (France)
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The Collégiale Saint-Étienne is a Gothic building in Hombourg-Haut. After the establishment of the Chapter of the collegiate by James of Lorraine, bishop of Metz in 1254, the church was erected during the 13th-14th centuries. It probably replaced an earlier church.
Although it was damaged by a fire in 1632, it was spared from destruction during the Thirty Years War and the 1789 revolution.
1847 a new organ was installed by Pierre Rivinach. In 1906 the instrument was extended by the Dalstein-Haerpfer company. In 1992 it was restored by the organ builder Michel Gaillard (Aubertin).
The stained glass windows include works by the 20th century master glass maker Jean-Henri Couturat, second 1925 Prix de Rome.
References:Saint-Georges de Boscherville Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey. It was founded in about 1113 by Guillaume de Tancarville on the site of an earlier establishment of secular canons and settled by monks from the Abbey of Saint-Evroul. The abbey church made of Caumont stone was erected from 1113 to 1140. The Norman builders aimed to have very well-lit naves and they did this by means of tall, large windows, initially made possible by a wooden ceiling, which prevented uplift, although this was replaced by a Gothic vault in the 13th century. The chapter room was built after the abbey church and dates from the last quarter of the 12th century.
The arrival of the Maurist monks in 1659, after the disasters of the Wars of Religion, helped to get the abbey back on a firmer spiritual, architectural and economic footing. They erected a large monastic building one wing of which fitted tightly around the chapter house (which was otherwise left as it was).